Foreign Relations of the United States Diplomatic Papers, 1938, General, Volume I

840.48 Refugees/999: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Germany (Wilson)

Washington, November 29, 1938—4 p.m.

214. Your 664, November 28, 5 p.m. Rublee reported on November 25⁷⁰ that he had been advised by an “unofficial” British source, presumably the one mentioned in your 647, that arrangements were being made, with Hitler’s consent, for Schacht to visit London within 2 weeks to confer with Rublee. Rublee was last night advised by the Foreign Office that Ogilvie-Forbes⁷¹ had been officially assured by the Reich Government that a high ranking emissary would proceed to London to confer with him in the immediate future.

Please check at once with the British Chargé.

Welles

70. Telegram No. 1354, not printed.
71. Sir George Ogilvie-Forbes, British Chargé in Germany.